Jim F, Author at Backseat Mafia

Live Review: Smashing Pumpkins / White Lies / Rocket – Piece Hall, Halifax 12.08.2025

Words: Jim F / Pictures: Huw Williams It was a brilliant, almost life-affirming night in Halifax as The Smashing Pumpkins rolled into town to play to a sold-out Piece Hall…

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Meet: BC Camplight – Truth, Trauma, and the Power of a Sober Conversation

There are artists who write songs, and then there’s BC Camplight — aka Brian Christinzio — a singular force who turns the ragged fabric of his life into spellbinding musical…

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Live Review: The Bluetones – Network 2, Sheffield 23.05.2025

A packed house in Sheffield welcomed The Bluetones with open arms a couple of weeks back, as the beloved Britpop survivors delivered a set full of warmth, wit, and wall-to-wall…

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Album Review: Ty Segall – Possession; the relentlessly creative Segall releases one of his best albums to date

Ty Segall’s Possession is a technicolor journey through the underbelly of modern America—psychedelic, melodic, and bursting with invention. His 16th album is one of his most sonically adventurous yet, moving effortlessly from…

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Album Review: Ty Segall – Possession; inventive, melodic and one of his best yet

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Meet: Monaco Revisited – David Potts on the Long-Awaited Return of Music for Pleasure

When I caught up with David Potts, he was in the thick of tour prep — “just finishing up the last bit of packing,” as he put it. Within hours,…

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Live Review: Pixies / Big Special – Leeds O2 Academy 19.05.2025

Pixies and Big Special rolled into Leeds, and it was a night of both contrasts at the O₂ Academy: a blistering, opening set from The Big Special, followed by a…

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Meet: Savages Fay Milton emerges as a Sonic Alchemist with New Project Goddess

Fay Milton is no stranger to reinvention. As the drummer of the incendiary post-punk band Savages, she made a name for herself channeling raw, visceral energy from behind the kit.…

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Album Review: Brian Bilston & The Catenary Wires – Sounds made by humans; Guest review by Sarah Records founder Matt Haynes

Should Bob Dylan have got the Nobel Prize for Literature? Of course not, he wasn’t a poet; as he famously said, he saw himself more as a song and dance…

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Track: Amanda Whiting – What Is It We Need; (Feat, Alice Russell) elegant, unhurried soul

With What Is It We Need, Amanda Whiting offers a moment of true elegance—an unhurried, soul-steeped piece that moves with the grace of a slow, stately dance. It’s a track that’s…

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